![]() Jumping off the dramatic, oversailing roof into the swimming pool was an important rite, one eventually passed down to the Stahls’ grandchildren. The towheaded Stahl kids liked to roller-skate across the concrete floors and got up to the usual youthful japery-setting Barbies afire and the like. For the Stahls, it became the blank screen on which they projected their dreams of a life together, a place to build a future, a family, and a house like no other.Īs the Stahls tell it, the house may have been a modernist glass bubble, but the glass had smudgy handprints all over it. Locals called it Pecker Point, presumably because it was a prime makeout venue. ![]() “This lot was in pure view-every morning, every night,” Carlotta Stahl recalled. It was as conspicuous as it was forbidding, visible from the couple’s house on nearby Hillside Avenue. Back home in L.A., as the newlyweds pondered their future, they became preoccupied with a promontory of land jutting out like the prow of a ship from Woods Drive in the Hollywood Hills, about 125 feet above Sunset Boulevard. ![]() ![]() ![]() They each worked in aviation (Buck in sales, Carlotta as a receptionist), had previous marriages, and were strapping, tall, and extremely good looking-California Apollonians out of central casting. In March 1954, Clarence “Buck” Stahl and Carlotta May Gates drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and got married in a chapel. ![]()
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